Chapter 162 Unification of the Han Empire
Wancheng said that the Tang Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty guard Zhang Xun were trapped in this city for more than a year because they had accumulated a lot of food and grass in the city, and Zhang Xun was also the top famous defender in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Therefore, Wancheng was never captured by the Xia army head-on.
However, Chu Tian surrounded him without attacking him, and when the general trend of the world changes, Wancheng has become an isolated city.
"It seems that I am arrogant. Yizhou and Yangzhou surrender, and only Jingzhou and Jiaozhou are left. How can I fight against the northern army?"
After the Tang Dynasty received Chu Tian's letter of persuasion, he confirmed that Liu Bei and Tongque had surrendered, he knew that he had lost his identity as a prince.
It is said that Tang only has one Wancheng, and there is no reinforcement outside, so there is no need to defend.
"Master..."
Zhang Xun was guarding the city for more than a year, which made the Xia army afraid of Wancheng, but he didn't expect that this would end up being the result.
"Zhang Xun, Wei Zheng, open the city gate, there is no need to defend this city."
It was said that Tang was discouraged.
The strong Wancheng had a wide gate, saying that Tang led 100,000 Wancheng defenders to surrender to Wei Wuji, who was responsible for besieging Wancheng.
Even if you have a top guard, you can't stand in Wancheng.
In Xiangyang City, Yang Shilang also received a letter of persuasion to surrender.
The one who came to Yang Shilang to submit a letter of persuasion to surrender was Cai Zhong, Cai and his brothers who served in Chutian's power.
Yang Shilang summoned the Cai family, Kuai family, Ma family and other aristocratic families in Xiangyang to discuss surrender. In the end, the situation was over, so he chose to surrender to the Xia army.
Yang Shilang currently controls Nanjun and Jiangxia County, and discusses the conditions for surrender with the Xia army ministers, which is quite time-consuming.
The Xia army did not rush to advance, but patiently surrendered these princes, their generals and soldiers.
If a fierce offensive and defensive battle can be avoided, it is naturally best to persuade surrender, and the time it takes is not long.
Wu Qi and Zhang Dao were preparing ships to cross the Han River, but they learned that Yang Shilang, the prince of Xiangyang, had decided to surrender to the Xia army, so they had no idea of crossing the Han River.
"What a pity, this is a military achievement to attack Xiangyang..."
Zhang Dao couldn't help but feel regretful when he heard that Yang Shiro surrendered.
Zhang Dao only participated in the battle to siege Fancheng and was about to besiege Xiangyang with Wu Qi and make some military achievements, but Jingzhou surrendered so easily.
However, Zhang Dao thought about it and probably the same mentality was the case when Cao Cao led his troops south, and the people in Jingzhou chose to surrender.
Chu Tian is now more powerful than Cao Cao before the Battle of Chibi.
So it is not difficult to imagine that after Liu Bei and Tongque surrendered, the princes of Jingzhou surrendered without fighting.
Jiaozhou, Panyu County, Nanhai County? The Xia army's envoy arrived and persuaded Wang Defa, the governor of Jiaozhou, to surrender.
Jiaozhou is the southernmost state in the Han Empire.
Wang Defa did not fight Chu Tian, and he never made up his position.
Wang Defa's survival philosophy is also very simple. When he occupied the Lingnan area, he would follow whoever wins? He could still be his governor of Jiaozhou? He would have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life and be the best.
"You go back and tell King Xia that King Defa, the governor of Jiaozhou, is willing to surrender to the court."
After Wang Defa determined that the unification of the Han Empire could not be avoided, he quickly made a decision.
Then there was the negotiations between the Jiaozhou family and the imperial court.
The aristocratic families in Jiaozhou did not fight against the Chutian forces, so they had relatively large negotiating capital.
The last three princes of the Han Empire surrendered to the court.
In addition? When the Tubo lord learned about the incident inside the pass, he also submitted a letter to surrender to the court? Tubo was incorporated into the territory of the Han Empire.
During the lord's sixteen years of winter? After the 16-year-old melee, the huge Han Empire was finally unified? After a long period of division, it will be together.
For a time, the news of the unification of the Han Empire spread throughout other civilized areas, and some opponents who regarded the Han Empire as their enemies were all shocked!
On the Deccan Plateau, the Mongol Empire Khan Ogedei stepped on the body of an Indian Mughal general. Looking around, the corpses were everywhere. Various flags of the Indian Mughal Prince and Duke coalition can be seen everywhere in the valley.
Vultures hovered over the battlefield, and cavalry carrying Mongolian bows were cleaning the battlefield, and they were finishing the battle from time to time.
The number of war elephants captured by the Mongolian coalition was a thousand.
Timur wiped the blood stained by his saber with a coarse cloth.
Not long ago, the coalition forces of Ogedei fought against the Indian royal and Duke coalition forces on the Deccan Plateau and defeated millions of coalition forces, Mongolian cavalry, and Turkic cavalry once again allowed the Indian princes to experience the horror of the nomadic cavalry.
A war eagle that was probing the horse and landed on Ogedei's shoulder. Ogedei pulled out a note, and the message on it was very short, and the Han Empire was unified.
Ogedei's face changed.
Finally, the Han Empire was unified and the huge war machine began to operate!
Timur rarely saw the rising Ogedei pale face: "Sweat, what happened?"
Ogedei kneaded the notes into a ball: "Chu Zimou has unified the Han Empire."
Timur also hated Chu Tian when he thought of snatching Xiao Chuo away. Reason finally defeated Timur's hatred: "Don't worry, the Han Empire has been fighting for years, and Chu Zi's plan to unify the Han Empire must have lost a lot of troops. He has not had a few years to recuperate and is unable to launch a major war."
"Chu Zimao's ambition is quite determined. In order to conquer the Decan Plateau as soon as possible, and restart the city massacre order, any city that does not surrender voluntarily will be slaughtered by us, and no one will be left behind!"
Ogedei realized that the crisis was coming.
If Chu Tian exploited the potential of the Han Empire and operated the war machine, then Ogedei, which was adjacent to the Han Empire, would be Chu Tian's enemy.
At the same time, Chu Tian was also the enemy of Ogedei.
The two face the fate of arguing again.
And this time, Ogedei thought he was not ready.
Chu Tian needs time to recuperate, and Ogedei is almost the same.
"In the distant east, the Han Empire has gone from melee to unification, and is rectifying various counties and resuming order. If the king aspires to fight eastward, be sure to be on guard against the Han Empire."
In the city of Alexandria in the Kingdom of Macedonia, the clerk Eumens reported the war report of the East to the Emperor Alexander the Great sitting on the throne.
Since seeing Chu Tian as his most powerful opponent, Alexander has always been paying attention to the progress of the Eastern Empire.
Alexander and Chu Tian were about the same age as they had become calm at this time, like a sharp blade that had closed the sheath: "Soiling the relationship between Ogedei and the Han Empire, they both suffered losses. In addition, follow me to Zurich, and it is time to meet with Hohenzollern of the Holy Roman Empire, Gustav of Sweden and others."
"yes."
Eumenis immediately went down and started to make arrangements.
Zurich is the main city of the Swiss Federation and a neutral city.
The city of Roman Caesar, Pompeii and Constantine returned from Egypt, and were in vain.
They immediately went from Rome to the city of Zurich.
The teleportation array of Zurich City, a team of Swiss halberd soldiers, guarded by musketeers.
The Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Hohenzollern, and many elected emperors, came out of the teleportation array, and a team of knights from the Teutonic Knights served as their guards.
The Nordic lion Gustav then came out of the teleportation array, and the Swedish Dragoon provided protection for Gustav.
French lord Louis led a team of paladins to appear in the city of Zurich.
Charlie, the lord of England, led a team of English longbowmen.
Spanish lord Isabella led the Spanish knights to arrive.
For a moment, the city of Zurich was surging.
"Alexander."
When Alexander and Macedonian cavalry arrived, everyone's eyes turned to Alexander and Belisarius, who had served for him the famous Byzantine commander.
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"Three Roman emperors!"
When Caesar, Pompeii and Constantine appeared, they also aroused many people's exclamations.
Alexander looked at the three Roman emperors: "I heard that you are conquering Egypt, what's the situation?"
Caesar replied: "It is only a matter of time to conquer Egypt."
"You must know about the unification of the Han Empire."
"Yes, that's why we temporarily put aside the war in Egypt and come to Zurich to discuss this with you."
In the fifth national war, many Western lords learned how powerful Chu Tian was and knew that no Western civilization could compete with Chu Tian.
Chapter completed!